A judge recently dismissed the case against an inmate charged with promoting prison contraband, according to court documents.

At a hearing on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Neuman asked the court to reconsider his decision to drop the charge against inmate Frank Pangelinan.

Pangelinan was indicted on a charge of promotion of major prison contraband as a second-degree felony. Pangelinan is one of five charged in the case, after police on Oct. 16, 2017 found a suspicious package inside a Guam Memorial Hospital restroom, according to court documents.

The package at GMH contained two cellphones, two SIM cards and a cell phone charger, court documents state.

A witness said on the day the package was found, Corina Tedtaotao had just dropped off the package at the restroom, documents state.

Authorities reviewed recorded telephone conversations between Raymond Tedtaotao’s brother who’s also incarcerated and Corina Tedtaotao during which Corina Tedtaotao indicated her fingerpritns were on the package recovered from the hospital, court documents state.

Corina Tedtaotao was detained and interviewed on Oct. 19 and she said she packaged the cellphones and SIM cards with duct tape and left them at GMH, documents state. She said the package was to be retrieved later by someone else to bring it to the prison, documents state.

Corina Tedtaotao said Manibusan provided the items to her and the items were for Raymond Tedtaotao, Pangelinan and Shawn Paul Johnson, court documents state.

Judge Vernon Perez stated in his order that he reviewed the evidence and it “does not clearly tie (Pangelinan) to the alleged conspiracy.”

Perez stated a cellphone was found in Pangelinan's cell in September 2017.

“The court believes that DOC’s administration can sufficiently address (Pangelinan’s) violation…based on its own internal rules and regulations,” Perez wrote in his order.

Raymond Tedtaotao(Photo: Courtesy of the Guam Police Department)

The other defendant in the case, Raymond Tedtaotao, through attorney Terence Timblin also asked the court to dismiss the charge against Tedtaotao as Perez did with Pangelinan’s charge. “As with Pangelinan, there are administrative sanctions that the Department of Corrections can impose on Tedtaotao,” Timblin stated in his motion.

Pangelinan is currently serving a life sentence without the chance for parole, documents state. Raymond Tedtaotao is serving 45 years in prison, documents state.